By MARY RONKE, Ilorin – Police operatives from Kwara State Command have arrested a transborder suspected kidnapper, Mohammed Alo, in the forest of Baruteen Local Government Area of the state. The command’s spokesman, SP Ajayi Okasanmi, in a statement said that the suspect, a citizen of Benin Republic, was...
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Residents in Abakaliki, Ebonyi capital have decried the rising cases of missing persons and killings for rituals across states of the federation, urging concerned government agencies to checkmate the trend. In a vox pop by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday, they attributed the reason for quest...
Three comedians in Imo, who were thought to have been eating their faeces in a trending video, have denied doing so, saying that they were only making a comedy skit. Great Egbuchulam, Solomon Mbata and Arinze Mbah aged 21, 20 and 21 respectively debunked the video reports while speaking...
Dozens of people are said to have been abducted by terrorists in a fresh attack on Ruwan Godiya village in the Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State. The Police Public Relations Officer of the State Police Command, SP Gambo Isah, confirmed the incident to Channels Television on Tuesday....
Police authorities in Ogun State have paraded four teenage suspects believed to have killed a young girl for a ‘money-making’ ritual in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The command’s spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, while parading the suspects on Monday said the suspects confessed to have lured their victim to an...
A soldier has been killed and two others injured as gunmen attacked troops in Rivers State. The incident happened in the early hours of Sunday at the boundary bridge between the Asari-Toru Local Government Area in the Kalabari region and the Emohua Local Government Area of the state. Chairman...
No fewer than five residents of Ilesa, Osun State, have been killed during clashes between two rival cult groups and suspected land grabbers. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the fight started on Friday afternoon after some youths, suspected to be cult members, stormed a new building...
One person has been killed and three others injured in a duel between police operatives and gunmen suspected to be cultists in Kwara State. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Ajayi Okasanmi, confirmed the incident to newsmen on Saturday in Ilorin. He explained that the faceoff occurred...
By HARUNA AHMED, Damaturu – Unknown gunmen on Tuesday have abducted an Assistant Headmaster of Central Primary School, Buni Yadi, identified as Babagana Kachalla and four others in Madiya Village, Gujba Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the gunmen invaded the village on Tuesday at...
Palpable fear gripped residents of Dong village, Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State after gunmen attacked a mining site, killing four persons. The gunmen stormed the mining site on Saturday and shot the workers dead, a situation that forced the State Police Command to deploy more personnel...
At Least 112 illegal refineries have been discovered in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State. Chairman of the council, Samuel Nwanosike told Channels Television that 99% of the discoveries were made in a particular community located along the OML 17 trunk lines. The discovery comes on the heels...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Police Command has paraded one Ahmed Umar Goni, a 16yrs old SS 2 student of Elkenemi Islamic College of Theology, Maiduguri for cutting the throat of Pre JSS student, Jibrin Mato with razor blade and 46 others for various offences. Addressing...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday expressed the nation’s condolences to the family of the five-year-old school girl Hanifa Abubakar whose body was discovered in a shallow grave in Kano after near two months of fruitless search. Tge President condolence message was contained in a...
Gunmen have kidnapped the Commissioner for Industry, Trade, and Investment in Bayelsa State, Federal Otokito. Police authorities in the state confirmed Otokito’s abduction on Friday in a statement, barely a day after the incident took place. The Police Public Relations Officer in Bayelsa, Asinim Butswat, revealed that the commissioner...
The Kano State Government has ordered the immediate closure of a private school, Noble Kids Academy, in Nassarawa Local Government Area of the state, where abductors of a pupil, Hanifa Abubakar, were said to have killed and buried her remains. Five-year-old Hanifa was abducted late last year and one...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba has traced the prevailing calm in Cross River to Governor Ben Ayade’s relentless support to the state’s police command. The IGP who spoke yesterday at the State Executive Council Chamber of the Governor’s Office, Calabar, during a courtesy...
The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the alleged missing of firearms and ammunition belonging to the police. This followed the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance by Rep Toby Okechukwu, the Deputy Minority Leader on Thursday at plenary. Moving the motion, Okechukwu said that 178,459...
A domestic worker, identified only as Blessing, has gone into hiding after allegedly stealing money and jewellery valued at over N13.9m from her boss’ residence in the Victoria Island area of Lagos State. Blessing’s boss, Pearl Ogbulu, on Tuesday, said the suspect allegedly perpetrated the crime about a week...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – No fewer than 16 kidnapped victims have been rescued by operatives from The Kaduna State Police Command in the Chikun Local Government Area of the state. The command’s spokesman, Mohammed Jalige, who revealed this in a statement issued on Monday, said the bandits tried...
By MARY RONKE, Minna – Suspected bandits otherwise known as terrorists have kidnapped no fewer than 15 persons in Ibbi community in Mashegu Local Area of Niger State. It was gathered that the bandits, who invaded the remote community also rustled a yet-to-be known number of cattle. They were...